Atlantic Diner — Restaurant in New York

Atlantic Diner is not quite the flashy New Jersey style diner, but it is a place with style. It's well appointed with an undersea motif, good ambiance, and 90s music playing in the background. Right now it's George Michael.

The upholstery is a little worse for the wear. Though probably not dating quite to the 90s.

I'm here at 5:30 on a Friday afternoon and must have beat the rush. Seating and service were prompt and professional. The menu spans the gamut in typical diner fashion.

One of the views looks across Queens Boulevard. As the people of Queens parade by in pursuit of work, pleasure and the mundane tasks of life, I realize how much they are a Cross section of the world. Hundreds of languages, races, nationalities, cultures and subcultures.... crammed together in the small space that is New York City; rubbing shoulders throughout the day, everyday - and living in peace. No need for government mandated equity and inclusion. The people of Queens have been doing that successfully, naturally and peaceably for 100 years.... Top-down intrusion in the name of inclusion never works anyway.

My cheese omelet arrives and is good but not fantastic. But truth be told: I didn't pay for fantastic. A large 4 egg cheese omelette Was only $12.95. So who's complaining?

After thinking about it, My third time here I asked the chef if he could cook the eggs in butter for me instead of oil. And good sport that he is, he did. And it made all the difference much tastier. Thanks Eddie!!

The cheesecake is amazing. The slice is beefy in size and creamy in taste. It doesn't have that cheesy flavor that a lot of cheesecake does. I've been eating cheesecake for a few decades and this is the best I've had. Even better than juniors in Brooklyn ...

The menu is broad enough to support several return visits and I will be making at least...

I really wonder how this place has so much 5 star reviews to be honest because my one star review is only because it's the lowest I'm allowed to give on Google. I decided to go to this place because it's in my neighborhood and the icing on the cake was that I went here for my birthday to have dinner. To start with, it seemed as though the waitress was trying to rush us to place an order, however it was a lot of us and they have a big menu so obviously it would take a while. I ordered the half chicken with stuffing, mashed potatoes and broccoli. The apps we got were calamari, Buffalo wings and mozzarella sticks. The calamari was stiff and chewy, Buffalo wings was literally dry, fried wings and the mozzarella sticks were very salty. The mashed potatoes were tasteless and the broccoli had no taste as well. My brother ordered the steak well done but it was burnt, hard and tasteless. Unfortunately, it seems as though none of their food has any taste. But here's the best part, when my food arrives on the table, it has an egg shell and a carrot root in it. I requested the manager and tried to explain to him that my family and I want a refund on my plate as well as their plates seeing that they didn't start to eat yet. My family honestly were not going to eat their food after seeing what was in my plate as they are obviously prepared in the same kitchen. He immediately gets angry and starts quarreling. He honestly should learn some manners, especially being the manager of a FOOD place with the fault being on HIS side. We grew tired of the arguing and soon settled the bill, a whopping $200 and yet none of us even got to eat and we surely were not going to carry home any of that food. I honestly wish I could've given this place negative stars especially because of the nasty attitude the owner has. This was the absolute worst...

Just like any other diner, it does not specialize in any specific food so therefore everything equally tastes okay and/or bland. However, the service sucked. I feel that management doesn’t stress allergy cautions enough because the waitress that served us didn’t seem to like the fact that we had to send our ice cream back because there were nuts on it. When I ordered the ice cream sundae I specifically said no peanuts because my boyfriend reminds me since he’s the one with the allergy and the waiter something after my request but I didn’t hear her so I just ignored it. Couple minutes a later a man gives us our sundae and it has peanuts on it so I wait till the waitress passes us to tell her if I can get another dish. She rudely replies and consists that I ASKED for peanuts. I did not and clearly it was a misunderstanding so I let it go. She leaves and we assume she’s getting us another plate however the old one is still on our table. 15 minutes pass and she is walking around serving others but I do not bother cause i’m sure she’s busy. She finally comes up to us and asks us what’s wrong and I repeat myself stating that my boyfriend is allergic and we asked for another plate. I think she thought we were just going to remove the peanuts??? (Ppl die from allergy reactions btw) Anyway, she rudely drops the plate on our table and we just eat it and end up dipping right after because I wasn’t having it. I’m very friendly to customer service always so that caught me off guard but customer service should always be alerted of the seriousness...